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> and all news is written by an LLM.

And that's arguably not even really news. IMHO, the best that can be is regurgitated press releases or worse (like closing stock prices mashed up with hot takes from social media and some hallucinations for "analysis").

An LLM isn't going to do any investigation, or even really have any judgement about what to write about. Though I'm sure "AI" enthusiastic will happily point to the weakened state of journalism, which does sometimes regurgitate press releases, as justification for weakening it further in order hype "AI" more.
Would stronger typing help here?

If I were to design those APIs, I'd maybe suggest a more opaque type called "LanguageCode" that is NOT a String and could not be returned from or passed as a String. Then getLanguage() could return a LanguageCode type, and the Locale() constructor could take the LanguageCode type as its parameter, and then tooling could enforce that you can't mix LanguageCode with String.

Then, calling Locale's constructor with the return value from getDisplayLanguage() would produce an easy-to-find error.
similar thing with steam demo days.

for a weekend or so a bunch of games are available for free to try them out. sounds nice until you find out that they are really only available for the duration of the demo days. so one time i looked and i found a dozen games that i wanted to try, but then i realized that i would have to spend the whole weekend playing games in order to try them all. i ended up trying not a single one of them because i just can't tell my family that i won't be available for a few days until i tested all those games.

what would have made sense is to allow downloading all the games for free and then give each of them a time limit of a few hours to play. still not ideal (i am a slow player so i'd like to have a bit more time to evaluate a game) but way better than terminating the trial before i have even had the time to play anything.
Curious what the use case is for targeting a specific CPU. These are virtual CPUs anyways, so what benefit does using the latest intel chip offer?
One could derive a lot of it from GPS or message data alone. But the list sounds a lot like what you might get from a data broker, so I'm presuming that's where its actually coming from.

But to directly answer your question, imagine you're data mining a car's infotainment and come across the following queries... you may be able to infer some things from these entries:

"fertility clinic", "gay bar", "gentleman's club", "synagogue", "bankruptcy lawyer", "mobile home sales", etc.
Yeah, but the glut was used for something. And that something was management mandated projects. All successful Google projects were bottom-up ideas or acquisitions, with management usually fighting it as much as they can, because that's what management does.

Management isn't involved in actual functioning of the company, just in how it's organized. And of course, their main skill always turns out to be "organizing" it to their own advantage. Actual good ideas WILL lead to reorganizing work, and rearranging the management deck chairs. So management always turns out to be radically against those.

The engineers at the bottom are not just a necessity, they're THE source of revenue.

But guess what happens when you "trim the fat". Management is really good at keeping themselves in a job, and don't care about sacrificing the bottom. Meaning the worst possible outcome, according to these investors, and I'm 100% sure this happened at Google: the proportion of managers goes up when the layoffs happen. MORE organizing, less work.
With help from AI, Randy Travis got his voice back, and first song post-stroke
There are various reasons even in cities to make most utility poles easily breakable.

OTOH a bollard has an explicit different purpose that makes it easy to design for it.
Here in Brazil, we care, and we try to make amends: there are quotas for black people in universities, and our law is rigorous against manifestation of racism in social media, or in real life. I think it is expected that any place that enslaved people make their amends for their past crimes. But I fail to understand how for American people this should mean talking about slavery in Brazil instead of in their own country.
It can be both.

Data was exposed but not taken.

Or data was taken but investigations failed to show that.
Masses love beauty and status. Simplicity is accidental in your example.
Building a hypervisor Part 2: Booting Linux
Roofs are so expensive they factor heavily into what you can sell the house for.

Asphalt shingle roofs are lucky to get 20 years, cedar shingles are even worse.
How does Shadeform make money?
I've give it a read. But if it's just rehashing John Locke's prisoner dilemma of perceived choice vs actual choice...

I'm talking about objective reality, not subjective experience. The free will I'm interested in knowing if it exists or not is one we (in theory) could possible eventually measure (a difference in what physical processes say we should do and what we actually do). I'm interested in 'actual' free will, the ability to do what you would otherwise not.

Illusionary free wills are boring to discuss - as they are merely redefining our experiences in terms feed-back systems... which obviously exist - but that's not free will, that's our understanding and knowledge about observable systems.

The only free will that matters is: can we defy physics, or are we subjects of physics from now until the end of time. Are we free to choose the actions or is physics determining the actions we take. Are we in control of our lives or is the universe and we just lie to ourselves to keep on keeping on?

If everything is run by physics - that make you physics' sweet submissive.

edit: reading the back cover - the idea's of control vs freedom and elbow room are familiar, and in my opinion entirely misguided from the point I raise above... a feedback-system that allows you to control results is not a good definition of free will. What free will in that case is: is being able to choose anything in response to that feedback system... which has yet to be shown to be the case... and good arguments argue that it is impossible.
Honestly? Probably some kind of user manual, technical reference or cookbook.
The tailscale client generates WireGuard key pairs, but only sends public keys to the control plane. The private keys remain on the device only.
With only the public keys, tailscale control plane cannot snoop on your traffic.
This isn't about just inhibiting illegal things, constant surveillance has a chilling effect on many subjects
I checked your links. Java and Android are not broken. SO and Github examples just do it wrong, as can be seen in javadoc [2]. You are not supposed to invoke constructor with localized language name. It’s a bit silly to assume that it could work.
Right but I think that use to refer to using applications. Developing them is much more like real illiteracy. You can look at a bug tracker but the todo list might as well be in Chinese.
Pretty sure my buddy is an American - I've known him almost all my life. I'm quite sure he's poor - he asks me for money a bit more than I'd like. The fake name thing was just a strategy he developed after going to the ER due to a blow to the head which caused him to forget his name; I'm sure there are many creative ways to get healthcare, but most of the of poor Texans (whom I'm also pretty sure are Americans considering I'm related to a few of them) I've known just go to the ER and ignore the bills. It's probably not the best system, but it's the one we've got I guess.

As to point 2) I thought about including the info in my previous comment, but it wasn't in your own source material and I'm a bit lazy. So here, I'll do it in this one.

> Texas is still the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, at nearly 17 percent, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau survey released Thursday. [0]

[0]https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/14/census-bureau-texas-...

Speaking as a Texan (also pretty sure I'm American) who lives with some disability, I can tell you that I've looked at the systems and it's a real fear of mine that I'll end up as one of these statistics.
The BBC now reports data was taken:

"The personal information of an unknown number of serving UK military personnel has been accessed in a significant data breach, the BBC understands." via https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68966497
Thank you, I will fix that.
Yes, I'm mostly making fun of the fact that this extremely wealthy investor is pointing at the elderly (who likely have a higher percentage of their retirement saved in bonds and less-volatile investments) and distracting everyone from the fact that he benefits massively more if Google decides to make shareholders more money.
What could possibly cause it to become politically incorrect? I'm not understanding something here.
Possibly Volvo.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277797
Discussion on HN [0] (100 points, 1 month ago, 79 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898619
What nuance do you wish him to acknowledge? It seems to me like he's foundationally attacking the entire way the discipline is practiced, which is hard to do in a way that sounds polite, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's wrong.
That sounds about right. I wouldn't give up my synthetic stuff for, say, bike riding. It's light, dries quickly, insulates even when it's a bit wet, stands up to repeated washings, fits well and is just good at the job it's supposed to do.

Same thing for more intense hiking or xc skiing.

But for a nice mid layer for day to day use in the winter, I'd love to ditch the synthetics.
Never, the ruling class loves it, especially because they intend it to replace workers.
> So basically this PE guy?

:)
[dupe]

Lots of discussion last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40226934
If Javascript is good, explain String.splice.
I remember from an old documentary that when the sub broke apart while it was being lifted, the operators were watching a live video feed of the sub, and on that feed they could see an ICBM escaping from its silo before plunging back toward the depths. While the ICMB was sinking, I suspect that if someone farted in the room, only the dog could hear it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard
The 4chanx extension (userscript, run it in violentmonkey or equivalent) lets you nest comments in a chain to make following threads easy while maintaining the overall chronological state of the threads. You can also hide a reply, and it will automatically hide the entire chain of replies to that reply.
Discussion on HN [0] (172 points, 8 hours ago, 168 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274371
> That's the default health check associated with our load balancer, so it gets hit periodically (built-in cron job).

Be aware that you’re still leaving quite a bit of surface area unmonitored: any sort of issue between your clients and the load balancer could break and not fire an alert. DNS configuration, firewall issue, SSL certificates, network outage, etc etc.

If you’re really trying to assert that some HTTP resource is publicly reachable, it’s still a good idea to have some external testing service periodically hitting your endpoint, running some assertions on the response, and alerting you if it’s failing for more than X minutes. (We do this; see my other reply.)

Hope that helps!
For me is

the psychology of money

getting things done, first edition

How to Win Friends and Influence People (Unfortunate title for one of the best books on plain common sense when it comes to interacting with people)
Likewise![1] I apply it to all aspects of life and also whatever book[2] I read, I end up seeing something from the Gita in there. (or a movie or song).

[1] https://krishna2.com/bg
[2] https://krishna2.com/books
Yea that’s totally fair. I think we’re using slightly different definitions of “cloud” here. I’m mainly focused on the managed services/abstractions, things that abstract away the server itself and are usage based billed. But firing up a few ec2 instances is still technically “the cloud”, you are right.
> people who expect and are excited for their refund.

and then pay % of your refund as a fee to CPA, so they help you maximize your refund.
I have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars of value with “would it be ridiculous if”
The Discourses of Epictetus - This is useful to re-read frequently while thinking about any new challenges in my life, as these are powerful tools for managing hardship and generally living well.

When I say no, I feel guilty by Manuel J. Smith - a book on assertive and non-manipulative communication. This has been incredibly valuable for improving my personal relationships and work. It's also allowed me to recognize and defend myself against emotional manipulation, which is more common than I realized. For many people that is the main way they communicate- by trying to control others with guilt through manipulation.. and I used to be both unaware and extremely vulnerable to it. It is useful to re-read and practice frequently, as these are skills that require practice.
Or buy one of the lower trims without connectivity. The statements about it will still be in the privacy policy but they won't be sending the data.
Well who's being reductionist now? I don't see why if you say "pedestrian safety should be prioritized over motorist safety" that it necessarily follows that public utility cost savings (or whatever the point of this example was) should also be prioritized over motorist safety.
I have a waxed cotton jacket and it's ok for getting around town, but it's heavy and bulky compared to a gore-tex jacket.
Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Linking nicotine to dementia, which study?

For all the other things, the same can be said about coffee. Are we banning coffee?
It's typically the opposite. The most successful operations from secret services are the ones you never suspected even happened, while the fuckups are the ones who make the news.
Considering how debates tend to go in circles, I'm not sure if a DAG is the right data structure
> In other words, in the absence of RoI measures, the percent of engineering time spent on value-add activities is a pretty good proxy for productivity.

It's a lagging indicator of productivity. If the team is consumed with fixing old bugs, it means that teams weren't actually that productive years back and were instead just exchanging "results" for technical debt.

Instead of creating a perverse incentive to create messes, what if they did something like create a ratio: "60% of work is new features, and 40% is maintenance"? And if maintenance becomes all consuming, could they look back and identify the problems with previous launches?
I have meditations, letters from a stoic and discourses on rotation.
I wish that we taught better civics in school today. These types of protests are not really effective, compared to actions that tend to be much more effective.

Whoever was behind the Leave It Blank movement in New York - that is civic action that strikes fear into the hearts of political parties. There is nothing scarier than eroding your base 6 months before a Presidential election in key states. If you can convince someone, on election day (for a primary that is relatively irrelevant), to go to their polling place and fill out a blank ballot...it gives me chills. Nothing sends a stronger message. Joe Biden (or any other politician) doesn't really give a shit about what college kids do, as long as they keep it on campus.

I hope Columbia can recover. One of our local universities had what seemed like a mostly peaceful protest that was met with a nearly 1-1 force of state police and persisted for mere hours. Still, in retrospect only 1/3rd of those protesters were members of the student body or staff.
local running would be impossible as you would need your computer running 24/7 (since the widget is available on your website which is always online).

But building a simple RAG/Vector DB on top of llama3 is not very complicated.
Putting Words on the Screen
Glenn Gould Reader, a collection of writings by Canadian pianist Glenn Gould

Eye, Brain, Vision by David Hubel, IMO an excellent introduction to visual neuroscience for the layperson and a really, really nice example of good scientific writing

Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke by VI Arnold, for the density of ideas

Perceptrons by Minsky and Papert, mainly as an example of clear mathematical exposition
I highly recommend James Clear's first appearance on the Rich Roll podcast. Him speaking about the book is a lift.
> fascists

Well, they aren't actually. Lay off the hyperbole.
I know how many guns I have. I know the Feds have more. Therefore give them their pound of flesh before they show up with the myriad of guns.
Ban them. Here in the EU such behavior is mostly illegal.
I suppose binary prebuilts would still help, but my impression is that T2 is more like buildroot or gentoo, where building from source with your own compiler flags and patches is part of the point. Is that not right? (I confess I've not actually used T2, only skimmed info about it)
This isn't really anything new, the paper is just proposing APOE4 homozygous Alzheimer's as a special category.
>(You could argue that it's better in some sense for Mr Zuckerberg to control these resources than for the average investor to have that control. I'm sympathetic to that argument, especially if you carefully state what sense you have in mind.)

It is better for Zuckerberg to control those resources, indeed that's what I'm saying. He famously has special shares that give him outsized control over how facebook spends its money. And he was famously punished by the street -- that disastrous Meta earnings in 2021 when zuck decided to invest huge capex in GPUs. A normal company would not have made a move like that, they would have issued dividends with the money instead.

What I'm saying is, that's a good thing. Markets aren't perfect (they are actually pretty f!@#@$ dumb, especially about what a GPU was worth in 2021, and about what sports betting is worth today). I'm making a value judgement.

FB shareholders would have spent that 2021 dividend on ice cream or a remodel in Marin, and it's better for all of us that in 2021 they were forced by zuck to go without the ice cream and the remodel. Because we all got a free 400B param neural net. Humanity did.
Broken Money Explainer Video
Discussion on HN [0] (35 points, 4 days ago, 15 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238219